Tiferet Yisrael, on the virtue of Torah and mitzvot, by R. Yehuda Loew – the Maharal of Prague. Venice: Daniel Zanetti, [1599]. First edition, printed in the author's lifetime.

Signature on title page (in Hebrew and Latin characters): "Yechiel Michel Sachs – Dr. Michael Sachs" (R. Dr. Yechiel Michael Sachs, rabbi and scholar in Prague and Berlin, d. 1864).

65 leaves. 29.5 cm. Fair-good condition. Stains, including large dampstains. Marginal open tear to one leaf, slightly affecting text. Worming. New binding.

Only book of the Maharal printed in his lifetime in Venice. The rest of his works were printed for the most part in his city Prague, and two were printed in Kraków. The book was published by R. Yaakov son of R. Gershon Bak (a progenitor of the Bak family), who had printed Tana D'Vei Eliyahu in Venice a year earlier, and Midrash Tanchuma in Verona in 1595. He later established a Hebrew printing press in Prague.

Includes leaf 65 at end of book, which is lacking in many copies, containing addenda to leaf 49.

CB, no. 6153,14; Zedner, p. 404; Cowley, p. 399.